One by one, American flags were carefully lowered into the flaming pit to be properly disposed on Thursday morning.
The tattered, torn and worn flags were given their respectful end during a brief retirement ceremony held on Flag Day behind Highland Lakes United Methodist Church in Buchanan Dam.
Jenny Tucker, the church’s pastor, said it was the second consecutive year that the church has hosted the event.
The City of Llano is currently in Stage 1 of its Drought Contingency Plan, it was announced in an email blast early Tuesday afternoon. The blast also said the city will likely move to Stage 2 in the next 7-10 days.
Stage 1 is voluntary water restrictions of landscape irrigation with automatic irrigation and hose-end sprinklers to twice a week on designated watering days during the hours of midnight to 10 a.m.
Just months after the figurative dust settled around a controversial proposed rock crushing facility near the intersection of Highway 71 and US 281 in southern Burnet County, notice of a new application for a crusher site near Sandy Creek in Llano County has been posted. But, apparently not all crusher facilities pose a threat to their neighbors.
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A four-way stop is likely to be put at the corner of College and Oak streets in Llano, it was decided at Monday’s city council meeting.
The council directed city staff to follow the recommendation from interim police chief Joe Hamilton, who completed research in the area after the city received multiple complaints.
The Texas Department of Transportation gave a presentation June 5 on its plans for the next few years.
Cathy Kratz and Michael Dutton of TxDOT were at a sparsely attended meeting at the Llano Library to receive comments on the Rural Transportation Program for fiscal years 2019-2022 for Llano, Blanco, Mason, Gillespie and Lee counties.
Those who did not attend the meeting can get more information online at https://www.txdot.gov/contact-us/form.html.
The Llano County Commissioners heard an update on the VETRIDE program during Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting.
Sophie McCoy, VETRIDE program manager, told commissioners the program is up to using seven vans. The multi-county program, based in Burnet, has provided 100 additional rides from Llano County in the last 12 months than it did the previous year.
“It has been a busy year,” she said.
The program is designed to help veterans, their wives and widows get to medical appointm ...
Harvey Klee of Llano County was awarded the “Best Tai Chi Instructor Training Provider 2018” in the U.S. by United Kingdom-based LUX magazine.
According to LUX, “Klee has designed a unique self-study tai chi program based on the premise that all learning is self-learning. This was the basis for the award.”
The Highland Lakes Tai Chi, an association of tai chi practitioners that meets regularly at Highland Lakes United Methodist Church in Buchanan Dam on Saturdays at 9 a.m.,
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When it’s hot in Texas, it’s HOT.
Extreme temperatures call for extreme measures, and this local resident (me) is fighting back to beat the heat!
If you’ve been wondering what the heck those shiny things are, clothes-lined around the sun blasted, west-facing wall of this hot little house on Sandstone, they’re called space blankets.
